Designed by Marc Bessant, I really like the Portishead album cover, basically because I love typography in design and that's all there really is in this., But as we know, "Less is more"..This interview i found with Marc, talking about the design, best describes the album cover in my opinion:
“after the ten year gap from the last record I knew the only visual which had stuck in the public eye had been the ‘P’ character, it was an established brand which I wanted to not only reintroduce but reinforce. We were keen to avoid anything ‘conceptual’, no puns or noir imagery, that was all dead to us, I wanted to present a box, which simply holds the music, with the least amount of information on it which would ultimately say everything – essential minimalism – which I felt captured the eastern block coldness of some of the music I was hearing in the studio.”
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